Presidential elections were held for the first time in France on 10 and 11 December 1848, electing the first and only president of the Second Republic. This election marked the birth of the Second Rep
Portrait de Louis Napoléon Bonaparte
Général Cavaignac photo Pierre Petit
Ledru Rollin
Two boys, one holding a poster for Louis-Napoléon and the other for Cavaignac, fighting
The Bonapartist Party, typically shortened to just the Bonapartists, was the name given to a political party that took part to the May 1815 French legislative election but was disbanded following the
1848 French presidential election
…December 1848 Registered 9,977,452 Turnout 7,542,936 (76%) Nominee Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte Louis-Eugène Cavaignac Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin Party Bonapartist Republican Montagnard Popular vote 5,434,226 1,448,107 370,119 Percentage 74.3% 19.8% 5.1% Results by department Elected President Louis-Napoléon…
During his exile to Elba from 1814 to 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte announced he would return in the spring. The violet became a symbol of this and of Bonapartism.
Eugène Rouher (1814–1884), French politician and president of the Senate during the Second Empire, was the leader of the Bonapartiste faction after 1871.